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| Date | Source | Headline |
| 01/15/1942 | Franklin Star | Franklin plans for Army camp boom. 2,000 workers to stay here, officials say. |
| 01/17/1942 | Columbus | Congressman Earl Wilson to take petitions back to Washington, calling for new Army Camp to be named Camp Tipton |
| 01/17/1942 | Columbus | 5,000 acres to be taken first, agent is told. Land use planning group at Purdue informs A. V. Keesling, county agent, the Camp is approved. Calls swamp Armory. Franklin is warned to prepare for 2,000 workers |
| 01/19/1942 | Columbus | MacArthur is suggested as name for Army camp |
| 01/19/1942 | Franklin Star | Report 7,000 acres to be bought soon. |
| 01/19/1942 | Franklin Star | Propose new camp be named Camp Lombard. Other suggestions - Driftwood Creek, Camp Johnson, Camp Benjamin Franklin, Camp Colin Kelly, Pacific hero of present war, and Camp Curl, for the first Indianapolis soldier know to have died in the present conflict. |
| 01/20/1942 | Franklin Star | May restore traction line to solve camp transportation problem. |
| 01/20/1942 | Franklin Star | To condemn 7,400 acres today. Farmers told indirectly they must vacate in 10 days. Rumors not made official. |
| 01/21/1942 | Columbus | Representative Earl Wilson guesses Camp will be ready in 6 months |
| 01/22/1942 | Franklin Star | Speed plans to dual-lane road. State Highway Commission awaiting word on location of camp entrance. |
| 01/23/1942 | Franklin Star | 40 barns available for camp evacuees. Temporary quarters for feed and livestock offered; More expected later; Area survey beginning. |
| 01/24/1942 | Franklin Star | 7,271 acres condemned. Must evacuate 2,500 acres by February 14th. Others in area must be out by March 24th. |
| 01/24/1942 | Franklin Star | Suggest camp be named for General MacArthur. |
| 01/26/1942 | Columbus | The name Amity, has been suggested for the new Army cantonment to be built. |
| 01/26/1942 | Franklin Star | Land negotiations start Tuesday. Owners ready to hear how much they get. 18 own property to be vacated by February 14. |
| 01/27/1942 | Columbus | 1st load of lumber arrives at camp site |
| 01/27/1942 | Franklin Star | Draft registrants in camp condemned area given 60 day deferment. |
| 01/28/1942 | Franklin Star | Army won't expand camp area - says Congressman Landis. Surveyed area enough. |
| 01/28/1942 | Franklin Star | Wants camp to be named Camp John H. Tarlton. |
| 01/29/1942 | Franklin Democrat | Eighteen own property that must be vacated. |
| 01/30/1942 | Franklin Star | Contract for 8-mile rail line let; New Road 252 route set. Contract calls for 8 miles of tracks into and inside of the camp. |
| 01/31/1942 | Columbus | Graves of Revolutionary War dead to be moved |
| 01/31/1942 | Franklin Star | U. S. Marshall and two deputies begin serving Eviction Notices to land owners in camp area. |
| 01/31/1942 | Franklin Star | First sale in new camp area brings Mrs. Nancy Harter, $3,240. |
| 02/02/1942 | Franklin Star | Rail spur work begins; Cable for phone laid; Union moves in. |
| 02/03/1942 | Columbus | Start survey to move graves from camp area. War Department representatives contact cemetery people at Edinburg. |
| 02/04/1942 | Columbus | MacArthur favored as name for camp by Grange |
| 02/04/1942 | Franklin Star | Camp to receive military name: Names such as Camp Lombard, Camp Hoosier, Camp Sacrifice, Camp Victory, and Camp Franklin are out. Still under consideration are Camp Bartholomew and Camp Lew Wallace. New names suggeted locally include Camp Shillingford and Camp Haven |
| 02/05/1942 | Columbus | 40 families find selves outside of camp area. Still some doubt about 2 churches and one cemetery. General Van Voorhis visits project |
| 02/05/1942 | Franklin Star | Camp area cut by 12,000 acres. 40,000 remain. |
| 02/06/1942 | Franklin Star | REMC to keep power on to farms until land evacuation. |
| 02/07/1942 | Franklin Star | Low bid total above 33 million. Project expected to cost considerably more tha original estimates. |
| 02/09/1942 | Franklin Star | Cantonment leads Red Cross to hire fulltime secretary. |
| 02/13/1942 | Franklin Star | Bulldozer kills workman on camp rail spur. Carl Swisher of Flora dies of broken back; crushed beneath construction equipment. |
| 02/13/1942 | Franklin Star | Hospital units ready to go up for camp. Construction firm moves in, sets up offices. Section A-1 to contain 619 buildings at $10,099,780. Section A-2 for 559 buildings at $10,374,348. |
| 02/14/1942 | Franklin Star | Evacuation day here, some farmers still remaining on tracts. 3 owners hope for extension. Others on way to new locations. Mr. E. A. Bridges, Mrs. Nellie Henderson and Nr. and Mrs. Jasper Davis hope for extension. |
| 02/16/1942 | Franklin Star | CAMP ATTERBURY chosen for new Army camp. Comes as a surprise as the name had never been suggested. |
| 02/16/1942 | Franklin Star | Last family moves out. Bridges farm is evacuated. Hurd company moves into W. D. Pritchard farmhouse. |
| 02/17/1942 | Columbus | Third Company Sets Up Offices in Camp Area. Fourth Expected Today--- Union Offices at Edinburg Are Through. |
| 02/17/1942 | Franklin Star | Hurd firm is moving main camp offices into Columbus Armory. |
| 02/18/1942 | Franklin Star | Contractors for 6 of 8 sections here by next week |
| 02/19/1942 | Columbus | Army asks new bids on final parts of camp. Sections A1 and A2 divided into 8 sub-sections for smaller companies. To open bids March 12. Contracts still to be let include major portions of camp buildings. |
| 02/19/1942 | Columbus | ARMY ASKS NEW BIDS ON FINAL PARTS OF CAMP. Sections A1 and A2 Divided into 8 Sub-Sections for Smaller Companies. TO OPEN BIDS MARCH 12. Contracts Still to Be Let Include Major Portions of Camp Buildings. |
| 02/20/1942 | Columbus | START DIGGING FOR BUILDINGS AT CAMP SITE. Machines Go into Action Grading and Excavating for Hospital Group. Drainage Area Cleared |
| 02/20/1942 | Franklin Star | Two large sections divided; Bids to be opened March 12. |
| 02/21/1942 | Franklin Star | Excavation work begins in camp on site for hospital. Grading on the former Middleton estate, north of old SR 252. |
| 02/23/1942 | Columbus | ANOTHER FIRM MOVES ON SITE OF ARMY CAMP. 0'Driscoll and Grove, Inc., Unloads Material for Office Building. SUES FOR POSSESSION |
| 02/25/1942 | Franklin Star | Plumbers' union sets up branch office for camp. |
| 02/27/1942 | Franklin Star | 1,000 believed working now in camp area. New contractors moving in daily. Hurd office growing. |
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